Shipyard Pakistan

Helping @solana builders in Pakistan connect, grow, and launch real projects

[Shipyard Pakistan @ShipyardPAK]

@_talalahmad Just a start 🔥

[Talal @_talalahmad]

When we started @ShipyardPAK, one of the biggest goals was simple: help more builders from Pakistan participate in the Solana ecosystem.

At the first Solana Breakout Hackathon, Pakistan had 26 submissions.

During Cypherpunk, that number grew to 39.

Now at Frontier, Pakistan reached 99 submissions, putting us among the top 6 countries globally.

That’s a 2.5x increase from the previous hackathon.

But honestly, the most important part is not the number itself.

It’s seeing students, developers and first-time founders go from:
“how do we start?”
to shipping actual products into global Solana hackathons.

Over the past few months, we’ve spent a lot of time building that momentum locally:
universities, workshops, online sessions, IRL meetups, founder calls, pitch reviews and helping teams stay consistent throughout the hackathon.

And now we’re doubling down on it.

On June 2, we’re hosting the Frontier Demo Day in Islamabad with a $7.5k prize pool to support the strongest teams coming out of Pakistan.

Still early.

But Pakistan is no longer watching from the sidelines.

Builders here are entering the arena seriously.

[opta. @optafinance]

Honored to be on this list.
Opta is bringing options to Solana. Equities, FX, crypto, commodities.

Trade any asset class. European or American style.

Options as composable tokens. They expire and settle themselves. You wake up with USDC.

June 2. Opta. Soon.

@ShipyardPAK 🤘

[shariq @shariqshkt]

Six weeks ago @kyvernlabs was an idea I couldn't stop thinking about.

June 2 I'm presenting it on stage in Islamabad.

If you're at Frontier Demo Day, come find me. I want to meet builders.

[Kyvern Labs @kyvernlabs]

Kyvern is heading to Islamabad.

One of 21 teams presenting live at the Frontier Demo Day, June 2.

See you there.

[Shipyard Pakistan @ShipyardPAK]

21 teams shortlisted for the Frontier Demo Day 🇵🇰

They will be presenting their products live at the Frontier Demo Day in Islamabad as part of Pakistan’s local track with @KASTxyz.

Pakistan showed up this cycle.

See you on June 2.

[Solana @solana]

2,857 submissions to @colosseum🔥

Enter the arena:

[mattytay @mattytay]

We have evolved the @Colosseum hackathon as AI has proliferated globally, and the results are compounding.

Founders are now leveraging AI to iterate on products much more rapidly, shipping MVPs at unprecedented speed and depth.

Our platform now has integrated skills, copilot ideation, cofounder matching, and other tooling. We have also built an internal AI-powered review product to assist us with filtering, evaluation, and signal detection.

Crypto's future is extremely bright.

[Superteam @superteam]

pronounce this slowly

[Shipyard Pakistan @ShipyardPAK]

Islamabad, it’s time to see what Pakistan built 🇵🇰

We’re hosting the Frontier Demo Day with @KASTxyz, where shortlisted teams from Pakistan’s local Frontier track will present their products live in front of judges.

$7,500 in prizes.

Once the demos are completed, builders, founders, and teams will get together over dinner to network.

🗓 June 2, 2026
⏰ 2 PM onwards
📍 Islamabad

Register:
https://t.co/bx6KPCMQMJ

[Solana @solana]

Builders wanted.

[Shipyard Pakistan @ShipyardPAK]

@TryNoahAI @solana 🙌🤩

[Shipyard Pakistan @ShipyardPAK]

84 submissions from Pakistan for the Solana Frontier Hackathon 🇵🇰

More builders from Pakistan are now building on Solana, and this cycle was all about helping more teams actually ship.

Pakistan showed up.
And this is only the beginning.

[Shipyard Pakistan @ShipyardPAK]

@kyvernlabs @colosseum ❤️🙌

[Colosseum @colosseum]

1 day left to submit your product to the @Solana Frontier Hackathon.

Finish strong! 🦾

[Superteam @superteam]

dear hackathon submitoooooor,

left your pitch deck for the last minute?

use https://t.co/Gn5XHkJWYp and escape the limbo of a blank doc

gg!

[Shipyard Pakistan @ShipyardPAK]

Frontier deadline is getting close 🇵🇰

We’re opening up Frontier Office Hours this weekend for builders who need help before submission.

Feedback on your project, help with blockers, submission guidance, or just another set of eyes on what you’re building.

If you’re building for the hackathon, this is the time to lock in.

🔗 https://t.co/IP6fNC30Ox

[vibhu @vibhu]

90% of my advice for @colosseum founders comes to these ideas:

Nail the 3-5 word pitch. Language is the basis for shared understanding, and nobody will use your product if they can't understand it. Use metaphors liberally to assist (e.g. Robinhood for agents, Pumpfun for startups).

In fact, you should solve for the language before you build anything, because the product emanates from the language. If you have the thought "a wallet for Polymarket users" or "Agents that serve as multisig members for Squads," in fact you've solved for audience & product already and now the rest of what needs to be done is relatively simple.

The canonical example from James Currier @ NFX (legendary investors) is "cloud storage for your photos" vs. "photo sharing app" is the same technical infrastructure but the first is a small idea and the second is a world-changing idea (Instagram).

Then, build for the right distribution channel.

If you're building a product to share trades in group chats, don't build a web app where people need to share links. Build a Telegram app or iMessage keyboard.

Lastly, keep your product vision narrow. Don't build generic infrastructure or building blocks. Solve single use cases with tremendous depth & make it a magical & delightful product, and then expand after you find happy users.

Specific language & audience, pick the right distribution channels, then a narrow product. In that order.

[Ivan 🧳 @ivan_nomadz]

If I had to win @solana hackathon again, these are the systems I’d use.

[Shipyard Pakistan @ShipyardPAK]

@SuperteamDE @solana Superteam Germany cooking as usual